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October 15, 2015 Week: 42 \ Day: 288
October
Averages: 62°\32°
Average
Sky Cover: 2% Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 12mph
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Observances
Today:
Conflict Resolution Day Link
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Get Smart About Credit Day
Global Handwashing Day Link
International Credit Union Day
International Day of Rural Women
I Love Lucy Day-1951 debut
National Cake Decorating Day
National Grouch Day
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day Link
Sweetest Day
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Observances
This Week:
11-17
Take
Your Medicine Americans Week
Earth Science WeekLink
Emergency Nurses Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Mediation WeekLink
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Veterinary Technicians Week Link
12-20
Bone
and Joint Health National Awareness WeekLink
National School Lunch Week
12-18
World
Rainforest Week Link
14-23
National
Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety
Week
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Quote
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1615 - Samuel de Champlain,
12 Frenchmen, and many of his HURON
allies, attack the IROQUOIS town
of Onondaga. Champlain will be wounded, and several HURONs will be killed. Champlain will
give up the attack. Because of Champlain's actions, the IROQUOIS will fight the French
for years to come.
1660 - Asser Levy granted butcher's license (kosher
meat) in New Amsterdam
1789 - 1st presidential tour-George
Washington in New England
1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln,
tells him to grow a beard
1874 - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of
work force
1924 - Pres Calvin Coolidge declares
Statue of Liberty a national monument
1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term
begins in Jan not March
1935 - The Tucson Daily
Citizen celebrated its 65th anniversary
1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have
& Have Not" published
1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric
social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry
1956 - William J Brennan Jr appointed to US Supreme
Court
1962 - Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
1966 - LBJ signs a bill creating US Dept of
Transportation
1966
- Black Panther Party was created by Huey P.
Newton and Bobby Seale.
1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide
protest the war
1981 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George
Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland,
California.
1984
- Central Intelligence Agency Information Act
passes
1985 - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
1991 - Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme
Court Justice (52-48)
1997 - US launches
nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112
miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 - The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi
collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing
11 people and injuring 43.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders
bowling lanes at Whitehall
1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st
ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine", is staged in Paris
1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of
friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to
begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of
St Helena to begin his exile
1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1905 - Claude Debussy's "La Mer" premieres
1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India)
makes its first flight.
1968 - The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland
(NPNI) withdraws from its role as 'official' opposition within the Northern
Ireland parliament at Stormont
1975 - Iceland moves int’l boundary from 50 to 200
miles
1993 - Nelson Mandela & South Africa
president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
2003
- China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned
space mission.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another warm day this fall. How much longer can it last?
NAU held a memorial walk yesterday afternoon for the student shot
and killed last week and the 3 others who were injured. All NAU activity was
cancelled for the walk. Then I woke up this morning to find that the 18 year
old charged in the incident will be charged with 2nd degree murder
and aggravated assault as the prosecutor he doesn’t have enough evidence for
premeditation (1st degree). Hmm, the newspaper says there was a
fight and the man charged went back to his vehicle in a parking lot, to get his
gun. Seems to me that when he left the fight area and ran back to his vehicle
and got his gun out of the locked glove compartment and then ran back to the
fight he had plenty of time to consider what he was doing. Maybe I don’t have
enough information.
Bought my plane ticket to Denver and back for my trip to Cuba. Big
surprise, it was only $85/RT with carry on free and $25 for one bag. That is a
really good deal. And both flights are at decent times so I don’t have to leave
or arrive back in the middle of the night.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Use
the syllables in the sylalist to complete the clues below. Each clue gives how
many syllables the answer of it has. Can you complete every question?
Sylalist: al, ag, er, ful, ga, hope, ig, im, ine, ize, loo, rand, re, rus, sa,
wal
1. Arctic marine mammal (2)
2. Eskimo Home (2)
3. Optimistic (2)
4. Understand Clearly (3)
5. Chore (2)
6. Suppose (3)
7. Long Narrative (2)
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Twin brothers separated at birth and reunited
39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a
dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to
women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller
Lite.
Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made
from milk. It is odorless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic,
antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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…Crazy
Law…
Tucson, AZ: Your Spurs Can't Jingle Jangle
Jingle
It is against the law in Tucson to wear spurs
inside a hotel lobby.
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…Harper’s
Index…
15 –
percentage of water consumed annually by CA’s agriculture industry that is used
to grow alfalfa to feed livestock
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
12. In South Korea:
In South Korea, it is believed that running a fan in a closed room
while sleeping will kill you. People in South Korea are said to only use fans
in rooms with a cracked window (via Slate)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The original version of Roger Corman’s The Little Shop of
Horrors was reportedly the fastest film ever made. It was written in a
single night, rehearsed in three days, and shot in two days and one night. Why
the rush? Corman wanted to finish the movie by New Year’s Day 1960, when a new
industry practice would have forced him to pay the actors residual fees for any
showing.
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2
jokes for the day
A candidate for city council was doing some
door-to-door campaigning, and things were going pretty well, he thought, till
he came to the house of a grouchy-looking fellow. After the candidate’s little
speech, the fellow said, “Vote for you? Why I’d rather vote for the Devil!”
“I understand,” said the candidate, “but in case your friend is not running,
may I count on your support?”
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Hearing a scream from the playroom, the mother
rushed in and found her infant daughter pulling the hair of her four-year-old
bother.
After separating them, the mother said to her son, “Don’t be upset with your
sister, honey. She didn’t know she was hurting you.”
No sooner had the mother returned to her chores than she heard more screaming.
This time she rushed in and found the baby crying. “Now what happened?” she
asked.
“Nothing,” said the boy, “except that now she knows.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
SARASOTA,
FL. - A Florida DWI suspect allegedly offered authorities an unusual
explanation for his vehicle's erratic movements: "My dog was
driving." The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said a deputy attempted a
traffic stop shortly before 8 p.m. Oct. 7 on a white four-door vehicle seek
speeding through a neighborhood. The sheriff's office said the vehicle sped up
while attempting a turn and ended up traveling through a ditch on the side of
the road. The driver then over-corrected, swerved and ended up going through a
ditch on the opposite side of the road before crashing into a house,
investigators said. The suspect, later identified as Reliford Cooper, fled on
foot and a K9 unit soon found his t-shirt in front of a church. A pastor from
the church told a deputy that someone was hiding in the facility's bathroom.
Churchgoers forced Cooper out, and he was placed under arrest. "I wasn't
driving that car." Cooper allegedly told deputies while he was being
handcuffed. "Who was chasing me? You're slow as [expletive]!" A
deputy told Cooper he smelled of alcohol and marijuana, leading him to
allegedly offer an explanation for the events. "My dog was driving that
car. I ran because I wanted to. You ain't gonna find no drugs or guns on
me," Cooper allegedly said, before vomiting and complaining of a back
injury. Cooper was arrested on charges including DWI with property damage,
aggravated fleeing, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage and
resisting/obstructing an officer without violence. He was taken to Manatee
Memorial hospital for examination and later transported to jail.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
With
the ubiquitousness of the Internet it is easy to forget that once upon a time
the recording and passing on of knowledge was a monumentally important, even
sacred task and books were frequently more valuable than gold. Now, many books
aren't even worth the paper they are printed on, but those rare examples of
historic publications in antiquity that are still in good condition can fetch
kingly prices. Some of the most expensive books ever sold at auction are...
Traite Des Arbres Fruitiers
The "Treatise on Fruit Trees" is a five volume set written in 1750.
It contains illustrations and descriptions of sixteen different varieties of
fruit trees. With a 2006 purchase price of $4.5 million, it has the distinction
of being the most expensive book about fruit trees ever sold.
The Gutenberg Bible
There are 48 Gutenberg Bibles left of the original 180 believed to have been
produced. They were printed in 1456 and were the first books produced with
moveable type. A copy sold in 1987 for $4.9 million at Christie's New York.
First Folio
This book, a collection of William Shakespeare's plays, was published after his
death in 1623. Seven hundred and fifty copies were published, but only 228
survived. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen purchased a copy for around $6.1
million in 2001.
The Canterbury Tales
There are only 12 known first edition copies left since its publishing in 1477,
and only one is in a private collection. The book was originally purchased in
1776 and not sold again until 1998 with a purchase price of $7.5 million by
Christie's of London.
Birds Of America
This three and a half foot tall book depicts 400 life size North American bird
species known to the Audubon Society in the 19th century. Only 200 complete
first editions were produced, and 120 exist today. In 2010, one was sold for
$11.5 million, but a 2012 copy sold for only $7.9 million.
The Gospels Of Henry The Lion
Commissioned by Henry the Lion for the alter of the Virgin Mary at Brunswick
Cathedral, the German government purchased this 266 page book in 1983 for $11.7
million.
The Codex Leicester
Da Vinci wasn't only an artist, but also a scientist. This 72 page notebook is
a handwritten journal chronicling his thoughts on everything from fossils to
what makes the moon glow. Microsoft founder Bill Gates purchased the book for
$30.8 million and had it scanned to use as a screensaver for Windows 95.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(97) - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (Affluent Society)
(d.2006)
(96) - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (2X Prime Minister),
(d. 2012)
(93) - P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip
Jeeves) (d.1975)
91 - Lee A Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp)
80 - Barry McGuire, American singer (Eve of
Destruction)
(78) - Mario Puzo, novelist (The Godfather, Cotton Club,
Earthquake), (d. 1999)
(78) - Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos &
Deimos) (d.1907)
72 - Penny Marshall, Bronx, actress (Odd Couple, Laverne
& Shirley)
64 - Roscoe Tanner, tennis player (Wimbledon Finals 1979)
56 - Sarah Magaret
Fergusson, [Fergie], Duchess
of York
(55) - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Beyond Good and
Evil), (d. 1900)
51 - Jack Ma,
Chinese entrepreneur and founder of Alibaba Group
(50) - Virgil, (Publius Vergilius Maro) Roman Republican poet
(Aeneid), (d. 19 BC)
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Historical
Obits Today
Richard C. Miller,
American photographer-2010@98
Carlo Gambino,
Italian-American gangster, heart attack-1976@74
Cole Porter,
composer (Still of the Night), kidney failure-1964@73
Herbert Henry Dow,
American chemical industrialist, cirrhosis-1930@64
Bea Benaderet, NYC,
actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), cnacer-1968@62
Hermann Goering, Nazi
Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison-1946@53
Mata Hari, Dutch
dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad-1917@41
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Walrus (wal rus)
2. Igloo (ig loo)
3. Hopeful (hope ful)
4. Realize (re al ize)
5. Errand (er rand)
6. Imagine (im ag ine)
7. Saga (sa ga)
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Disclaimer:
All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All
‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one
other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly
once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore
difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar
was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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